"Ky Race Studied as Test Run of New Law; Curbs on Party Coordinating with Its Candidate Complicate Campaign Tactics"

The Washington Post offers this report, on one of the effects of McCain-Feingold.

"Democrats' Ads in Tandem Provoke GOP"

The New York Times offers this report, which begins: "Senator John Kerry's advertising campaign is so closely complemented by those of two major liberal groups running commercials against President Bush that Republicans are accusing the Democrats of trying to evade campaign finance laws."
The most important snippet from the article:

Mr. Goldstein said it was entirely possible to devise advertising strategies that correlate this closely without speaking directly by monitoring purchases, highlighting the difficulty such cases will have before regulators or judges.

Persily Affidavit in Georgia Redistricting case now posted

Penn law professor Nate Persily, who assisted the special master in crafting the Georgia redistricting plan required by the court in Larios v. Cox, has filed a report available at this link.

"Florida-Based Coronet Fights Sierra Club Ad Criticizing Bush, Firm's Plant"

The Miami Herald offers this report. Thanks to Dan Smith for the pointer.

"Spinning a Web of Money and Politics"

Peter Overby offers this "Web Extra" report at NPR.

Three in Roll Call

GOP Rule Could Force DeLay Aside, which begins: "House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has begun quiet discussions with a handful of colleagues about the possibility that he will have to step down from his leadership post temporarily if he is indicted by a Texas grand jury investigating alleged campaign finance abuses."

Questions Swirl on Voting Reform, which begins: "Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), who defeated Republican candidate Deforest “Buster” Soaries at the polls in 2002, is now hoping to beat his former opponent to the punch in an effort to address the perceived problems with security of new electronic voting systems."

Michigan Parties United to Defend FEC, which begins: "he Michigan Democratic and Republican parties don’t often see eye to eye, but the two diametrically opposed groups have teamed up to fight Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan’s (D-Mass.) effort to have a federal court throw out campaign finance regulations issued by the Federal Election Commission."

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